HeyJaredFrom Rosetau to Xibalba with Gregory Shushan
Exploring near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history.
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Secular Humanities, Survival, and Other Windmills: The Study of Historical Near-Death Experiences (opens the original)
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This is the kind of thing I should perhaps learn to ignore. A couple of years ago, I was invited to write an article for a special issue of the International Review of Psychiatry on the theme Mind Beyond the Brain. My contribution was called “Diversity and Similarity of Near-Death Experiences Across Cultures and History: Implications for the Survival Hypothesis” (if you’re going to follow me down this metatheoretical rabbit hole after reading this Substack, I suggest you start there). As readers
The Odyssey and Near-Death Experiences (opens the original)
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In my recently concluded research on near-death experiences (NDE) in Classical antiquity, I found seventeen accounts of the phenomenon. As with all my research, my criterion for determining whether an afterlife journey narrative should be considered an NDE or not is entirely dependent on how the ancient people understood it. Rather than imposing modern Western ideas about NDEs onto the accounts, I allow the texts to speak for themselves and respect the contexts given by their authors. This means
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